How many children give birth to illegal immigrants in the USA

There are more and more questions about whether President Donald Trump will be able to cancel the constitutional guarantee of granting US citizenship to children born in the United States from parents who do not have US citizenship.

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But what do we know about how many people get citizenship by right of birth in the United States and how has their number changed over time ?!

That's what the data says.

Who has the right to citizenship by birth, and who will be affected by the changes?

“It is not yet known who will suffer precisely if the White House decides to prevent the 14 amendment. Trump has not yet formulated this, ”said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of global migration and demography at the Pew Research Center.

“For example, children born to mothers who received permanent residence green cards, or those with temporary work or student visas, may be at risk. They could also be children of undocumented immigrants or people of mixed status,” Lopez said.

In 2016, four million children were born who were born in the United States and one of their parents was an illegal immigrant, according to an analysis of the Migration Policy Institute.

Of them:

• 1,3 million children live with two parents who are illegal immigrants;
• 1,8 million people live with one illegal parent and one parent who is a legal immigrant;
• 909 000 live with only one illegal parent

The United States is among the countries with the right of citizenship by birthright

Trump also erroneously claimed that the United States is "the only country in the world where the children of immigrants born in the country are citizens of the United States."

In fact, more than 30 countries have citizenship by birth, according to World Atlas, although the laws of countries differ. Canada and the United States are the only two developed countries with the right of citizenship by birthright, including Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

The number of children born to illegal immigrants is decreasing.

In 2014, around 275 000 children were born from undocumented immigrants. For comparison, in the 2009 year of such children was 330 000.

More inclusive statistics from the Kids Count Data Center show a similar trend. About 23 percent of children born in the United States in 2016—more than 910 children—had mothers who were born in another country. These include illegal and legal immigrants, as well as those who have become US citizens.

Parents from which countries give birth in the United States most often?

Immigrant parents mostly come to give birth in the United States from nine countries and Puerto Rico, according to an analysis of the Pew. It should be clarified that mothers born in Puerto Rico are US citizens, but historically they are entered into government data as foreign women.

Mexican mothers account for about a third of all children born in the United States. The remaining eight countries are China and India (5 percent each); El Salvador, Guatemala and the Philippines (3 percent each); Honduras, Vietnam, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (2 percent each).

While China and Russia place a strong emphasis on “birth tourism”—where women travel to the U.S. so their newborn baby will be a U.S. citizen—the practice is under-quantified. The US government does not track how many women coming to the US on tourist visas give birth while they are in the country.

Michael Fix, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, said Chinese immigrants, like others, are coming to the US for economic opportunities. About half of all adult immigrants from China and 77 percent of adult immigrants from India have a bachelor's degree compared to 32 percent of adults born in the United States.

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